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Today we direct your attention to a young Japanese guitarist who goes by the handle "T-cophony." As you'll see in the many videos available on his YouTube channel, T-cophony has a fairly unique tapping style, which he applies to guitars with one neck (bottom video) and two necks (top video).

Toto have premiered “Holy War,” a new song from their upcoming album, Toto XIV. You can hear it below. The album, which will be released March 20 via Frontiers Music, is available now for preorder. “Holy War” is available now—along with another song, “Orphan”—as an instant-gratification track on iTunes when you order the album.

C.F. Martin & Co. and multi-platinum singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran are teaming up for the second time to create another Signature Artist Edition guitar from the Martin Custom Shop, the Ed Sheeran X Signature Edition.

Born of Osiris guitarist Lee McKinney has premiered a new song, “Skylasher,” and you can check it out below. The track is from McKinney's new project-in-progess, an all-instrumental solo album. “The track, ‘Skylasher,' is the first solo guitar instrumental song I’ve created in what will hopefully become a long discography of full-length records from here on out in my music career," McKinney says.

Joanna Connor might be the best slide guitar player you're likely to come across today. Check out this video of Connor, shown performing a wicked slide solo at the 2014 North Atlantic Blues Fest in Rockland, Maine.

Cracker have released a music video (of sorts) for "Torches and Pitchforks," the opening track from their 2014 album, Berkeley to Bakersfield. The video, which you can check out below, features a photo essay by Bradford Jones, with several other public-domain photos mixed in.